DSA made in USA mags: TILT

[milprileb]

I ordered 5 of these USA mags for my metric FAL. Mag body, follower and floor plate all USA made so thats a clear 3 USA compliant parts which is a nice plus.

The mags did not feed correcty and I sent all 5 back. DSA said they would replace them.

So....Heads up, the mags are out for sale but you might want to wait on buying them till they get the QC under control

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[jmoore]

Typical of aftermarket stuff (w/ a few exceptions!). Reliabilty and simplicity are what drew me to military weapons in the first place.

Thanks for the warning! I'm afraid GOOD new mags will be expensive, much like M-14 mags.

[milprileb]

When DSA sends 5 replacements back, I will report results. Hopefully the problem is fixed. If so: that is 3 USA made compliant parts for kit builders: floor plate, mag body and mag follower. For $20 a mag: 3 legal parts is a nice gain for kit builds.

Of course, at this point, I have sunk far too much money into kit building of a FN and would have been better off buying a new in the box FN from DSA. Trying to replace parts gets expensive and results of replacement parts is not always a success.

[jmoore]

I ended up going the M1/M14/M1A route as FN's aren't LH user friendly. AR10's I eliminated after having a few incidents w/ live rounds failing to chamber and no "kick start" feature to forcibly extract them (dirty conditions mind you, w/ mud and sand everywhere!)

You just gotta be willing to try an make the system work for you before moving on. Not something the basic grunt gets to do- he's got to hope his issued weapon is right BEFORE he gets it!

[Peter Laidler]

Being a foreigner, I have to ask just WHY you need US made repro FN type magazines for the locally produced FN rifle. Is there a shortage of FN magazines? When we needed a couple for our UK MoD FN FAL Ex8 rifles, I simply reshaped the standard UK made magazine front tag so that it'd fit our FN's Took 5 minutes or so do do each and test them for feed/load.

Sorry if I've missed something but just assume that if FN magazines are scarce, then for regular everyday use, it'll be a simple idea to just use the plentiful 20 or 30 round L1A1 magazines, simply modified

[milprileb]

Peter, If I want to keep my original British furniture (3 pieces) on my parts kit made rifle, I got to either replace the 3 pieces with US made furniture (its crap) or find another way to get the 3 parts: the DSA mags made in USA count as 3 USA parts: floor plate, mag body and mag follower. THus , USA DSA mags allow me 3 USA made parts for legality reasons. If I use my reliable European metric mags on this kit gun, I got to use the USA made plastic furniture and its less original, less quality and I just do not like this half great solution. By law, (and there are a lot of guys who just blow this off), a rifle made from a kit has to have 7 USA made component parts. My L1A1 has a USA made gas piston, trigger, sear , hammer , and USA made mag follower on the European mags of mine plus that USA 3 part plastic stock set: That makes it legal but that stock set is so inferior to the pebble grain plastic Brit set and detracts from the L1a1 so my solution was to seek the DSA mags that count for 3 compliant parts and just not use my European mags at all. So its a legal chase of parts involved here. I would have preferred to use my reliable metric European made mags.

Its nonsense but somehow our govt. thinks the L1a1 is less offensive if I replace good Brit parts with USA made ones. End state is still a riflle.

[jmoore]

Plus, some "fine" US "L1a1's" were not cut to take L1a1 mags! They will only accept FN style mags.